Workers examine a Spent Decon Holding Tank in the Agent Processing Building. Pueblo plant employees are in the process of turning over 63 systems and facilities in preparation for operations. Workers examine a Spent Decon Holding Tank in the Agent Processing Building. Pueblo plant employees are in the process of turning over 63 systems and facilities in preparation for operations.

“We challenged the workforce, the facilities, and the procedures for PCAPP EDS and the main plant extensively, and all showed they are equal to the task,” said Greg Mohrman, Army site project manager, PCAPP.

Bruce Huenefeld, site project manager (SPM), Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant (PCAPP) Explosive Destruction System (EDS) will retire Dec. 31 after decades of service.

Members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine met in Pueblo, Colorado, with Program Executive Office, Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives (PEO ACWA) leadership in November to receive updates on the Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant and Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant (PCAPP).

More than half of the operators at the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant (PCAPP) have experience destroying chemical weapons, including Pueblo’s newest leader. Gary McCloskey led efforts to not only eliminate the largest, most diverse chemical weapons stockpile in the country – he also managed the destruction of the first stockpile site in U.S. history.

The Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant (PCAPP) is made up of hundreds of components, circuits and cables; however, there are only 26 cognizant engineers, known as COGs, inside the plant. Their role is essential to starting the plant in 2016.

Following policies and procedures are of utmost importance in chemical weapons destruction. At the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant (PCAPP), supervisors let their interns flourish while adhering to stringent guidelines.

“Don’t worry—I’ve done this before.” You may have heard that assertion—usually in a comedy sketch right before someone gets hurt. But a trained skilled workforce is essential to the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant (PCAPP) and its Explosive Destruction System (EDS), where safety and reliability is no joke.

Toxic materials handlers employed by the U.S. Army Pueblo Chemical Depot (PCD) play a vital role in operations at the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant (PCAPP).

You’ve heard the expression, “It takes a village to raise a child.” At the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant (PCAPP), it takes a village to operate the plant in an environmentally-compliant manner. The plant is staffed with civil, chemical, industrial, structural, mechanical and environmental permitting engineers, as well as hydrology and agronomy scientists. “Each discipline has